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Linux 6.6 To Add New Input Driver Used By Wearable Fitness Devices

Phoronix - Sun, 07/16/2023 - 17:57
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.6 cycle later this summer is a new input driver for the Azoteq IQS7210A/7211A/E controllers...

Cluster Scheduling For Intel Hybrid CPUs Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 07/16/2023 - 03:34
For the past few months Intel has been working on a new cluster scheduling implementation for their hybrid CPUs. This rework was due to their earlier cluster scheduling code not working out so well for the likes of Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors while this new patch series can at least help some workloads in the ~1% range...

Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 23:36
Btrfs has long provided a built-in integrity checker tool into the file-system driver. However, slated for Linux 6.6 is deprecating of this integrity checker...

Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some Assembly In C

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 18:39
Ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc2 release tomorrow there was a set of x86/x86_64 kernel changes merged overnight to deal with some weaknesses in the kernel's Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) / FineIBT (Indirect Branch Tracking) code...

CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 18:24
With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately based. The CentOS Project issued a new statement on Friday...

systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 18:05
Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes...

uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 04:47
The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language...

Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 01:40
Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base...

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